Necessary Looking

Launched on Nov 29 2006, now 2,500+ posts...This bilingual blog - 'आन्याची फाटकी पासोडी' in Marathi- is largely a celebration of visual and/or comic ...तुकाराम: "ढेकणासी बाज गड,उतरचढ केवढी"...George Santayana: " Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence"... श्रीमंत बाळासाहेब पंतप्रतिनिधी : "बहुश्रुतता असल्याशिवाय सुसंस्कृतता नाही"

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Go to hell

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Indian media had big plans to splurge printing ink, advertisers' money, precious electricity and our time for another month or so in the...

"One billion people, yes. But how many human beings?”

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During last several weeks, I often heard: “A billion people are praying for India’s success at world cup cricket.” In the past, I may have l...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

Corporates beware! Consumers are fighting back

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My irritation with our service providers is increasing by the day. During last several months of 2006-07, I have been pissed off by ICICI Ba...

Indian Growth Story is Consumption driven

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Local stock market pundits often talk about this. Indian growth story is based on local consumption and not based as much on export as say C...

If you can't beat them.......

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There is this famous Americanism: If you can’t beat them, join them. We practise it many times. Once we become insiders, we change our colou...

Crummy Childhood

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Graham Greene: “Everything that can happen to a person, I think, is determined in the first sixteen years of his life” Therefore, she is rig...

Feeling a draft

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Happiness is elusive. "Happiness eludes the rendezvous we fix, arrives when we least expect it, disappears when we think we have it in ...

The crowd loves a good loser. Does it?

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India may or may not progress any further in the world cup after losing to Sri Lanka. However, frenzy among Indian cricket followers and med...

shouting from the left and the right as if this were real news and real information

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I think media is getting a bigger problem by the day. Electronic media is the worst. Print media is close second. Much celebrated hero-repor...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

a star to stay our minds on- Chekov

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Vijay Padalkar - scholar of Chekov 's work and author of much acclaimed Marathi book 'kavadase pakadanaara kalaavant' - tells me...
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